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“Over the years, we have had the pleasure to work with Springboard Design on several projects, from two multi-million dollar renovation and reuse projects, to multiple other smaller modification and addition projects. We are currently working with Springboard on a large deck addition to our Swissvale facility. We have found Paul and Bill to be creative, collaborative, and responsive throughout the entire design and build out process.” – Ron Ruppen, Facilities Director, CLASS

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Comments Off on Intern Architect Appreciation Day at Springboard Design

We’re celebrating our two intern architects, Teddy Boyd and Gina Laudato, who have helped us a great deal this summer. Teddy Boyd, a rising senior at The University of Pittsburgh, has been helping us conduct research, organize our office, and work through design opportunities. Gina Laudato, a rising senior at Kent State University, has been working on presentation drawings, materials research, and developing schematic design options with our team. As we send them back to school this fall we are reflecting on their hard work, intelligence, and enthusiasm, and wish them the best of luck in the future.

Comments Off on Springboard Design Selected to Conduct Feasibility Study for The Battle of Homestead Foundation’s Labor Heritage Center

As reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Springboard Design has been retained to conduct a feasibility study to assist The Battle of Homestead Foundation in establishing a Labor Heritage Center in the Homestead/Munhall area. We are excited to partner with The Battle of Homestead Foundation to explore many aspects of feasibility including costs, potential revenue, location and partnering. As Springboard Design’s Paul Rosenblatt remarked, “A big part of what we do is to look at organizations in a holistic way in planning. Not just spatial needs but organizational needs and capacity for fund-raising.”

Since our inception in 2001, Springboard Design has been committed to providing planning and design services to non-profits, helping to align facilities with missions, visions, and values. Organizations we have worked with include the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, The National Aviary, CLASS and Community Human Services. Inspired by community leaders like Theaster Gates and others, we have focused on how the arts can help drive community and economic development. This work has led to the establishment of an arts organization in Johnstown, PA, Creator Square.

Springboard Design’s Paul Rosenblatt was excited to be a part of the recent “Johnstown Vision 2025” annual celebration held at Ace’s Lounge in Johnstown on January 24, 2018. Johnstown Vision 2025 is a “framework for revitalizing Johnstown based upon an open, collaborative and community-driven approach.” One of Vision 2025’s feature projects is Creator Square, the artisan residency for makers and small batch manufacturers that Rosenblatt founded and directs. (Springboard Design’s $800,000 renovation of Creator Square’s studio building in downtown Johnstown is just about to begin this spring.) The evening’s keynote speaker, Bill Flanagan, Chief Corporate Relations Officer of The Allegheny Conference on Community Development, complimented Johnstown’s community redevelopment efforts. “You’re moving at lightning speed compared to the way things have unfolded in Pittsburgh over the last 35 years.”